Testing or Bypassing Door Interlock

[bobokines]

Re: Testing or Bypassing Door Interlock

happycack wrote:
Come on, be honest, has nobody out there ever done the same?
Paul

I can honestly say that I have never knowingly left a machine in an unsafe state. if it’s unsafe and the customer doesn’t want ot pay for the repair, I would either give the part away or cut off the plug!

Bob

[tanner]

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well done bob it’s the way i was trained at the beginning the general public can’t be trusted (some real thickos out there) i just don’t do it!!!

[maltheviking]

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Come on Paul I know we are all a bit of a social worker in this trade but get a grip man. We cannot be judge and jury on people’s lives and the cards they have been dealt, if they are so hard up then they usually know how to get the social to help.

You are in business to provide a profesional service and IMO you are not doing this, yes give them the correct information and point out the dangers if repairs are not done fully, BUT do yourself a favor and don’t give them the option for you not to act legaly and safely, if someone did get hurt do you honestly think they would give a damm about you?, especially in this claim society.

And No I have never knowingly left a door lock bypassed

[farmboy]

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happycack wrote:Cat amongst the pigeons was obviously an under statement! I do take all I can on board when I go to a call i.e. toddlers, low income, single parent etc so if that is the case then I just give them the full quote for the repair and don’t even tell them about a by-pass. BUT if all they’ve got is a couple of cats and the machine is in a garage or something then I give them the option. Especially if it is getting someone out of a financial tight corner. I know I might be sounding a bit ‘self righteous’ here but so far the only comments have been against what I have been known to do in the past but I bet I am not the only one to have done this. By the way, 30 years in the trade and not one come back on the above. (I did get 7 recalls on snails up the waste pipe!)

Come on, be honest, has nobody out there ever done the same? However I do respect your comments.
Paul

I do not and would not ever do this… For a 30 year man you should know better!

I came across your posts tonight and had to read them twice cos I couldnt beleive what I was reading in a trade section.

So what happens if your customer decides to move the machine into the kitchen? – what if she passes it on to her own offspring when they leave home and have kids of their own? I’m amazed that you have gotten away with this kind of practice for so long, if you can’t fix it properly and safely and your customer wont pay for safe repairs then walk away from it.

Maybe i’m over-engineering here but if I come across a hotpoint wm with no door locking a quick continuity check from the plug pins to the lock terminals quickly tells me if there is a live & neutral feed going to the lock.

[wilf]

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you dont short out one shot stats as well do you? that would save money too! GET A GRIP MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wilf

[maltheviking]

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Who set this thread off then 😛

Have you seen my new avitar, it’s me and an interlock 😆 😆 😆

[Fairdeal]

Re: Testing or Bypassing Door Interlock

WOW
Did not realise that my thread would have so many replies!! LOOL

Just to let you know guys, i only asked so that I can test the door lock and I am trying to make a test kit just to test motors so that I do not have to connect the door interlock and keep locking it with a screwdriver or some sort.

I never do things like these at the customer’s place i.e. leaving a machine without the door lock or other dangerous fault. What i usually do when I have to take the part out of the machine, i take the plug and the fuse out from the plug(as well as advising the customer not to switch on) that is usually at the back of the machine and then put the machne back so that it cannot be turned on deliberately.
If anyone has better advise or idea than that then please let me know.

And no chance of taking out stats or cut outs, I will definately not sleep that night if I ever do it.

[happycack]

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I still can’t believe that out of all the engineers that use this site that not one of them hasn’t bypassed a door lock in their time, and of course I wouldn’t bypass a stat. The only couple of times have been to well vetted people with more common sense than the commenters so far would believe that they had.
No one going to hold their hand up?
Paul.

[Penguin45]

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happycack wrote:No one going to hold their hand up?

Nope. Never have, never will.

Chris.

[maltheviking]

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Penguin45 wrote:Nope. Never have, never will.Chris.

You a solicitor 😆

[kwatt]

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In days of old, when customers were slightly more reasonable (or less insane depending on your point of view) it was common practice to, in certain circumstances, bridge out the old Candy door lock. I know, I did it.

But…

There was also the mechanical side of the lock on the old switch banks and the customer was well warned in advance that it was a tempory repair only until the part arrived. Usually Candy had ran out of the damn things.

But that was then.

Now, there’s no way I’d leave a machine that I wasn’t happy with simply because they’d sue your ass off as fast as look at you a lot of ’em.

Just today we had one nutter on (the first for some months to be fair) accusing the engineer of damage/dislodging her sink as he’d turned off the water to get the machine out. I’ve had them on threatening action as the machine ran longer (by 8 minutes in one case) than it did before a module was replaced and allsorts of other loony tunes stuff.

Leave it unsafe, you leave yourself wide open to all kinds of trouble you just don’t want.

K.

[maltheviking]

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I though this would have gone past midnight :rolls:

[Seamy]

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Just to clarify, (in case of litigation) my advice was to test if the door interlock was at fault & NOT to leave this safety device by passed
😳 😳 😳 😳 😳

[kwatt]

Spot on Seamy as if you do, you’re liable.

K.

[maltheviking]

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😕 😮 😆

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